The Russellville Democrat., 1887-08-03
SPRING STYLES.
Dress Materials Which Promise to be Ex tremely Popular in the Near Future.

Dress Materials Which Promise to be Ex-
 tremely Popular in the Near Future.
 A glimpse of the next seasons styles is given in the shops by display of fabrics for spring dresses, embroideries, ribbons, etc. A few light woolens are shown, but these are not bought so readily as the cotton goods which most ladies have made up at home with the aid of seamstress, because any simple and favorite style will answer for these unpretending dresses, while the more costly fabrics must be made later, when the last word of fashion has been re- ceived. Stripes of various widths, large plaids and bars, and small Pom padour designs are the features of new cotton fabrics. Primrose shades. brought into favor by the ladies of the English Primrose League, are seen in all kinds of materials, especially in the Scotch ginghams so much worn by English women. This bright primrose yellow is combined with almost every color, so that both blondes and bru- nettes can wear it; thus there are ging- hams with alternate stripes of primrose and heliotrope, or primrose with pink stripes, primrose with brown, and primrose with blue of all shades, pale, dark, gray-blue and sapphire. These stripes are called cord stripes. because they are separated by firmly woven but fine cord of the colors of the two stripes, or else dashes of two shades of one of the colors. Heliotrope ginghams are largely imported with stripes of white of various widths, from fourth of an inch to an inch wide, and will make exquisitely cool and fresh-looking dresses. Large plaids are imported for the skirts of gingham dresses, with q plain fabric for the waist. Lace-like stripes, checks and bars are also in the newest zephyr and ginghams, some times in plain grounds, and in other cases separated by Pompa- dour bouquets brocaded on q light stripe; the latter are to serve as petticoats below Marie Antoinette draperes of the plain goods. Instead of the laces that wash badly yet soil so easily, some good embroidery will be used to trim these dresses, or else the fashion of last year will be repeated, of adding velvet collar, cuffs and bows that can be removed easily when the dressis laundried,
 One of the styles now in vogue for making cloth and faille dresses, is simple enough for these ginghams when the entire dress is of one piece, instead of in combination with difler- ent pattern. This fashion has q plain lower skirt, with a very long, full over- skirt and basque made without lin- ing. The lower skirt will be best made gored and covered from the knees down with straight fall, hemmed widely, and merely covering the founda-. ton skirt; this fall will need to be very slightly gathered at the top in front and on the sides, and must be quite full in the back. The long over-skirt may be caught up on both hips or only on one, and will be made bouffant behind by buttons and loops underneath, or by
 
 above it. The belted waist and the basque with revers, or opening over a full chemisette, will be the corsages used; bretelles of velvet ribbon with straps across the front will be worn over full gathered white plastron, and there will be velvet collar and cuffs. The feather-stitched guimpes, and sleeves with wristbands also feather-stitched, and the sailor collars with cross-striped inside shirt bosoms, will also reappear.
 Cotton satteens are shown again, with their closely twilled surfaces in designs and colors more like foulards and India silks than those of any pre- vious season. The special novelties have wide bars and stripes with hiero- glyphics and quaint Eastern figures on them in white or eolors, alternating with plain gray-blue, indigo, brown or dark green grounds, and these are to be used for skirts and draperies with plain corsages; those of India blue with terra-cotta stripes can scarcely be distinguished from silks, and the other dark colors with white or Suede figures are equally stylish. Some of the most refined patterns have hcliotropo grounds, of which there are dozen different shades, some more pinkish and others as blue as mauve, strewn with gay ohintz-colored cubes. ovoids or conventionalized flowers. Then there are cream white grounds, pale rose, sky blue and the most delicate gray shades, with designs in monotone or in contrast, as well as some bright Eng fish pink or scarlet settings. with tho popular navy blue, gold brown. dark green and maroon red The hair stripes so popular last year are slightly varied by being zigzag or in Greek squares, while three or four different colors are seen in the pencilled lines of dark grounds. Tho polka dots and rings have become commonplace, but specks led satteens with exceedingly small specks of white, yellow or bright col or on dark blue, brown or green sat- teens have superseded them and will be useS as they were late last sommer for next snd stylish dresses, not only of cotton stufls, but in summer silks. The all aver Persian patterns are again imported with new grounds of steel blue, lead and heliotropp. Hagper's Ba$ar.
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